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  • News from West Bengal | 16 Nov, 2025 | ২ অগ্রহায়ণ, ১৪৩২
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  • Fit cert enough, govt removes 15-yr age cap on comm vehicles

    Kolkata: In a key relief for private bus operators in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA), the Calcutta High Court on Thursday disposed of a long-pending writ petition after the state govt presented a draft notification allowing stage carriage buses ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather: Sunny skies, AQI remains poor

    On , Kolkata is experiencing a sunny morning with temperatures expected to range between and , providing conditions suitable for outdoor activities. This follows yesterday's air quality, which was in the category with an , a condition ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Woman sells property to pay 30L to cabby after blackmail

    Kolkata: An app-based cab driver, Prem Singh—a native of Madhubani in Bihar—was arrested for allegedly extorting and blackmailing one of his woman passengers, who had developed a relationship with him, with her intimate photos. The accused, who has been ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Commuters come to blows at metro stn

    Kolkata: Two commuters were involved in a physical altercation at Esplanade metro station on Nov 12. Around 2.30 pm on Wednesday a female commuter, a resident of Golf Green, alleged that a male commuter attempted to force his way ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Fire engulfs E India’s biggest electrical appliance hub on Ezra Street, traders peg total loss at 100cr

    Kolkata: An early morning blaze in Ezra Street — eastern India's largest hub for electrical goods — gutted several shops, warehouses, offices, and the city's first Parsi fire temple, causing losses estimated at over Rs 100 crore (including goods, ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Blocked lanes, dumped wares: Govt to meet traders next wk

    Kolkata: Taking note of the fire brigade's difficulty in fighting the blaze on Saturday, KMC mayor Firhad Hakim and fire & emergency services department minister Sujit Bose stated that the govt will soon convene a meeting with traders to ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Gutted shops expose CBD’s fire-safety lapses

    Kolkata: The Saturday morning blaze in Ezra Street once again highlighted the lack of fire safety preparedness in the city's central business district. The blaze started shortly after 5.30 am in a building at 26 Ezra Street, a narrow ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Blaze ravages a slice of city’s Parsi link as flames destroy 186-yr-old fire temple

    Kolkata: The fire that ravaged Ezra Street also destroyed a slice of Parsi history with the gutting of the city's first fire temple constructed nearly two centuries ago.The agiari or the fire temple was established in 1839 by Parsi ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Construction continues, KMC to visit park on Mon

    Kolkata: Even as construction work at the park opposite the Shakespeare Sarani Police Station continued unabated on Saturday, green activists questioned the KMC's right to forfeit the maintenance of a public property to private organisations and allow the felling ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Bihar no yardstick’: Trinamool shrugs off Owaisi’s success along border areas

    Kolkata: With Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) winning five seats in Bihar's Seemanchal that shares a border with Bengal, a repeat of the political posturing that was seen ahead of the 2021 Bengal assembly elections appears inevitable ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Federation, indie film-makers clash over censorship, technicians’ dues

    Kolkata: The recent controversy involving the censorship of an SRFTI student's feature film, which was barred from release due to objections from the Eastern India Motion Pictures' Association (EIMPA) and the Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    NGT raps state agencies for canal clean-up delay

    Kolkata: The on Wednesday criticised state agencies for failing to clean Kestopur and Bagjola canals, even nine years after the issue first came under its scanner. Calling the delay "unacceptable", the eastern zone bench directed the state authorities ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Brawl at New Market pub over tips

    Kolkata: A violent altercation inside a New Market pub, where a female employee accused her colleagues of physical and mental abuse along with molestation, led to a police complaint being filed.The incident reportedly began when a 25-year-old resident of ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    KKR on course correction mode

    Kolkata: All good things come to an end as Kolkata Knight Riders' 11-year association with Andre Russell was broken on Saturday after the franchise released one of their most popular and utility cricketers ahead of the IPL mini auction. ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Durgapur man, 62, dies after stung 890 times by bees

    Durgapur: A 62-year-old man, who was hospitalised after being stung by a swarm of bees near Major Park at Durgapur on Monday, died at the hospital on Friday. Nirmal Dutta, former headmaster of RE Model School in the city, ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Winter demand in bakeries & production cost spike push up egg prices in Kol mkts

    Kolkata: With the onset of winter chill from early Nov, the humble egg once again turned into a pricier breakfast essential. Prices jumped from Rs 7 per piece during Durga Puja to Rs 8 now — a significant rise ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Salt Lake bizman falls prey to investment fraud, loses 1.8cr

    Kolkata: A 57-year-old businessman, residing at AC Block in Salt Lake, was allegedly duped of about Rs 1.8 crore in an investment fraud on an online platform. The victim was introduced to the fraudulent scheme through a WhatsApp group ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Displaced Bowbazar residents return to roots, collect forms at SIR camp

    Kolkata: Displaced residents from Durga Pituri Lane and Syakra Para Lane cave-in zone at Bowbazar returned to their old neighbourhood to collect enumeration forms for the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls on Saturday at a special camp. ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Gutted shops expose CBD’s fire-safety lapses

    Kolkata: The Saturday morning blaze in Ezra Street once again highlighted the lack of fire safety preparedness in the city's central business district. The blaze started shortly after 5.30 am in a building at 26 Ezra Street, a narrow ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Presi girls’ hostel to get more CCTV cams

    Kolkata: Presidency University has decided to install more CCTV cameras around the periphery of the girls' hostel in Salt Lake following allegations of a miscreant hovering around the campus and making obscene gestures at the hostel inmates.Bidhannagar Police said ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    11 lakh yet to get forms; no deadline extension, says EC

    Kolkata: Officials of Election Commission's office in Delhi asked the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) to complete distribution of forms by Sunday and emphasised that there will be no extension of Dec 4 deadline for submission and uploading ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    WBSSC releases preliminary interview list

    Kolkata: The West Bengal School Service Commission on Saturday released the preliminary interview list for classes 11-12. A total of 20,500 candidates were listed for 38 subjects where the vacancy is 12,445. For every 100 vacancies in each subject, ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    Mercury crawls up, warmer days ahead

    Kolkata: The mercury crawled up marginally on Saturday in Kolkata, even as the Met office predicted slightly warmer days ahead. The minimum temperature was 17.6°C, while the maximum climbed a degree to touch 28.2°C. Both may climb a degree ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Undue load’, incomplete forms, no pic: BLO anger boils over collection hurdles

    Kolkata: SIR forms that had not been filled, non availability of elector's photographs and difficulties in uploading the data on BLO app were among multiple hurdles that BLOs faced as they went about collecting forms on Saturday. Pouring out ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    KMRC razes two more buildings for reconstruction of cave-in zone houses

    Kolkata: Two more houses were razed in the Bowbazar metro collapse zone to clear the remains of the elaborate construction activity that happened here in the past five years and make way for the reconstruction of houses that had ...

    16 November 2025 Times of India
    India's real estate sector: A beacon of optimism amid global challenges

    KOLKATA: NAREDCO Real Estate Sentiment Index for Q3 2025 has revealed a buoyant outlook for India's real estate sector, showcasing its resilience and adaptability in the face of global economic uncertainties. The Current Sentiment Score has climbed to 59, ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Partial closure of Ultadanga flyover

    Kolkata: The airport-bound flank of the Ultadanga Flyover, which connects EM Bypass to VIP Road, will remain closed for patch repairing, mastic asphalt laying, road marking and traffic appurtenance work from Saturday midnight to Monday morning — in five-hour ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Science City show features Raj-era stamps, postcards issued for World War fundraising

    Kolkata: When the world speaks of propaganda during World War II, it almost always invokes Nazi Germany and Joseph Goebbels' fiery broadcasts that manipulated the masses. Yet, halfway across the world, the British Empire ran its own quieter but ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Beautification’ kills over a dozen giants in Theatre Road park

    Kolkata: Call it a massacre of greenery. A prime public garden in central Kolkata has been ravaged by the indiscriminate felling of trees and concrete being poured into the ground in an apparent attempt to ‘beautify' the park. Trunks ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    AQI slips to ‘very poor’ zone 1st time this season in Kolkata

    Kolkata: With the winter chill slowly setting in and wind velocity slowing down, Kolkata's air quality started deteriorating sharply on Friday. For the first time this season, one of the Kolkata AQI stations recorded ‘very poor' reading on Friday.The ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Jhargram’s ‘Agnikanya’: 8-day-old poisoned by grandma survives infanticide bid

    Jhargram: A girl child who was poisoned by her grandmother eight days after she was born pulled out from the jaws of death after spending 11 days at a hospital at Jhargram district's Beliabera village. She has now become ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Dengue count in Kol hits more than a ton in a week

    Kolkata: Dengue cases in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) area have seen a significant rise, with numbers escalating from 1,106 to 1,245 in just a week. This late surge, attributed to sporadic rain in late Oct, has raised concerns ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Bihar results will have zero impact on Bengal polls: TMC

    Kolkata: The Bihar poll results "will have zero impact in Bengal", Trinamool said on Friday, questioning Congress's "lack of performance" to lead the INDIA bloc and taking a dig at Prashant Kishor, saying the poll strategist was a "kishore ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    High court quashes molest FIR against Customs inspector

    Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Friday quashed the molestation FIR filed against Custom inspector , who was assaulted by a group of local miscreants at his flat in a Sonarpur housing complex last month. Kumar had moved HC ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    2-year-old slips through 7th floor window grille, dies

    Kolkata: A two-year-old girl died after falling from the seventh floor of a premium housing complex in New Town on Wednesday afternoon after slipping through a gap in a custom-made window grille, police said. The child was playing alone ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    EC to start checking EVMs in Bengal on Nov 21

    Kolkata: Ahead of next year's Bengal assembly elections, the Election Commission (EC) plans to start Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) checks on Nov 21. The process will continue in phases till mid-Jan. An EC team, led by deputy election commissioner ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Wave of support in Bihar will reach Bengal: BJP

    Kolkata: A jubilant Bengal BJP on Friday expressed confidence that Bengal will see a repeat of Bihar, where NDA swept the polls, in the upcoming assembly elections. BJP's victory in Bihar has come at a time the party has ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Terror funds: NIA lens on B’desh nat’l in Dinhata

    Kolkata/Jalpaiguri: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has focused its attention on an alleged "Bangladeshi national", identified as Arif Hossain, who has been residing in India for the past decade. Evidence suggests he played a crucial role in arranging funds ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Docu confusion, tech glitches and upload delay mark first day of SIR form submission

    Kolkata: Technical glitches, delays in uploading data on the BLO app, mismatched information and confusing instructions by the BLOs plagued the SIR form submission process in Kolkata on Friday. By Friday early afternoon, about 13 lakh filled form details ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Fans reunite with red-ball cricket as Test returns to Eden after 6 yrs

    Kolkata: Six years since Kolkata last hosted a Test match, the city woke up on Friday to the unmistakable hum of anticipation as India took on South Africa on the opening day of the longest format's return to one ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘No bigots’ posters at ISI as campus erupts in fury against hateful graffiti

    Kolkata: A new set of posters was pasted on the walls of C V Raman Hall at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, on Friday, vehemently denouncing the Islamophobic graffiti, scrawled on those very walls a day after the Delhi blast. ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Awami League netas, away from home, guide lockdown protests in Bangladesh

    Kolkata: Over the past 15 days, through a calculated and strategic campaign, Awami League's exiled leadership reached out to the party's rank and file through encrypted channels, including social media, to connect with its workers. This effort resulted in ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Blind poet’s new poetic style redefines verse rules

    Kolkata: Blind poet Satyajit Mandal's new poetic style, ‘alliteration rhythm', an innovative approach, promising to redefine the traditional flow of verses. Mandal's latest books of poems, created with the new style, officially recognized in Bengali, English, and Hindi ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Bank fraud: Cal HC refuses to grant bail to industrialist

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday refused bail to industrialist Sanjay Surekha, who was arrested by CBI in Dec 2024 in a bank fraud case, stating that while constitutional courts frown on long detention due to delay in trial, ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Scooter hits truck negotiating guard rails, woman dies while saving baby

    Kolkata: A 34-year-old young mother died while trying to save her two-year-old son after the electric scooter they were riding collided with a truck manoeuvring around a cluster of closely spaced guard rails at Kaikhali crossing on VIP Road ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    CBI shameless, say parents of RG Kar victim in court

    Kolkata: Parents of the victim of RG Kar rape and murder termed CBI as "shameless" on Friday. The central agency's investigating officer Seema Pahuja later said that she's also "a mother".On Friday, the CBI submitted the seventh status report ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Doctors save 20-day-old with cyst-covered lung

    Kolkata: While congenital heart diseases are much discussed, lung diseases are rarely talked about. Recently, doctors at Narayana Superspecialty Hospital (NSH) Howrah operated on a 20-day-old baby with severe respiratory distress in its emergency department. The newborn was diagnosed ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    After spate in snatchings, cops plan EMB outpost

    Kolkata: Rocked by the back-to-back incidents of snatching on E M Bypass and its surrounding areas — five cases in three months — Kolkata Police is planning to overhaul policing around the Kasba-Tagore Park-Panchannagram area to enhance security and ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    IIT tells 7 boys to stay at home for 6 months to 2 years, revokes expulsion, suspension

    Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur revoked its decision to expel three students, who were engaging in a violent fight on the campus, and instead, asked two of them to stay at home for four semesters or two years and the third ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Gang picks fight, assaults & robs brothers in Posta

    Kolkata: Two brothers returning home at night were allegedly targeted by a gang that picked an argument on flimsy ground with the elder of the two, before robbing them and fleeing. The incident was reported from Posta, near 3B, ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Cops seize drugs in New Mkt, 2 held

    Kolkata: The narcotics cell of the detective department arrested two youths, Md Zeeshan (23) and Md Akbar (22) of Park Street, and seized ecstasy (MDMA) from them in New Market around 9.30 pm on Thursday.Cops claim the drugs, stored ...

    15 November 2025 Times of India
    Elderly couple gets back 65L lost to e-arrest crooks

    Kolkata: A Netaji Nagar couple, aged 84 and 77, who lost Rs 1.8 crore to a digital-arrest fraud last July, had Rs 65 lakh recovered on Wednesday by the Kolkata Police cybercrime division.The recovery came on the same day ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Parents organise autism convention in Kolkata

    Kolkata: The City of Joy is witnessing a convention highlighting the remarkable resilience of parents who has turned their personal experiences into a mission to build a more accepting and inclusive world for their children with autism. A three-day ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Show status of land given to Centre for border fencing: HC to state

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the state govt to file an affidavit within 15 days stating the status of land to be handed over to the Centre for fencing the unfenced portions of the 2,216-kilometre border that ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    After Moon, Isro sets sights on Venus, Mars

    Kolkata: After successfully landing a rover on the Moon's south pole in Aug 2023 as part of mission Chandrayaan-3, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has set its sights on Venus and Mars. While the space agency has already ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    1.5k cops, 3 drones, 2 rounds of frisking at Eden for India-SA Test

    Kolkata: The much-anticipated Test match between India and South Africa is set to commence at Eden Gardens on Friday — under a thick security blanket following the explosion in Delhi. No less than 1,500 cops will be on duty, ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    If you can’t submit SIR form now, EC will offer second chance after Dec 9

    Kolkata: The Election Commission of India has announced that those who will fail to submit their filled enumeration forms for the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by the Dec 4 deadline will get a second ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Trainee doc held for molesting minor on med college campus

    Kolkata: A 32-year-old third-year postgraduate trainee (PGT) doctor at Barasat Medical College and Hospital in North 24-Parganas was arrested on Thursday for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old girl under the pretext of examining her before a surgery.The accused, identified as ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Sikkim CM Prem Singh Tamang hospitalised: Nosebleed, high BP during event; under close medical observation

    GANGTOK: Sikkim chief minister Prem Singh Tamang was admitted to hospital on Thursday, after he experienced nose bleeding and high blood pressure while attending a programme at Rangpo Ground, his son said.The incident took place during the ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    EC’s ‘Aadhaar data plot’ to delete voters won’t work in Bengal, says TMC

    Kolkata: Any attempt to make living voters dead using UIDAI's Aadhaar data, evident during the Bihar special intensive revision (SIR), will be resisted in Bengal both in the courts and on the streets, Trinamool said on Thursday.The party's sharp ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    You inhale microplastics equal to a plastic bottle

    Kolkata: An average Kolkatan inhales about 2.9 grams of microplastics over a lifetime, equivalent to breathing in a small plastic bottle, a study by researchers from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, AIIMS Kalyani, and ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    New Town techie loses 16L in job fraud

    Kolkata: A 51-year-old New Town techie lost Rs 16 lakh in a job fraud after he paid the money to a fake placement agency for securing a top-level finance job at an MNC. The complainant, resident of Action Area ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    New Town techie loses 16L in job fraud

    Kolkata: A 51-year-old New Town techie lost Rs 16 lakh in a job fraud after he paid the money to a fake placement agency for securing a top-level finance job at an MNC. The complainant, resident of Action Area ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Children’s Day celebrations in Kolkata schools turn less sweet, more healthy

    Kolkata: On the eve of Children's Day, some CBSE-affiliated schools in Kolkata chose not to give high-calorie chocolates and sweets during the school celebrations. Instead, they opted to provide food items containing less sugar and salt. The step comes ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    HC seeks state affidavit on horse health check failure

    Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Thursday directed the state to file an affidavit stating why it was yet to conduct a health check on horses engaged in hauling hackney carriages in the Maidan area despite the HC's Nov 2023 order. ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Suvendu claims threat calls from Pak, B’desh

    Kolkata: Suvendu Adhikari, leader of the opposition in Bengal assembly, on Thursday alleged that he was getting threat calls from Pakistan. Adhikari claimed he was also receiving threat calls from Bangladesh on a regular basis."I got a threat call ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    NIA conducts searches in Bengal over Guj terror conspiracy case

    Kolkata: The National Investigation Agency () was among the multiple central and state security agencies that conducted searches at several locations in Bengal over the past 48 hours.While the NIA raids at Dinhata in Cooch Behar, just like Nabagram ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    HC disqualifies Mukul as MLA for defection

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Thursday disqualified 71-year-old Mukul Roy from the Bengal assembly under an anti-defection law, four years after petitions were filed against him by the leader of opposition in the assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, and BJP MLA ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Sudden dip in temp lays city low with viral and bacterial infections

    Kolkata: Even as the minimum temperature dipped below 18°C, the city was gripped by yet another viral outbreak, laying hundreds, including children, low. The symptoms were similar to several preceding outbreaks: a persistent cough, high fever, body ache and ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    ICSE exams from Feb 17, ISC from Feb 12

    Kolkata: The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations released the timetables for the ICSE (Class X) and ISC (Class XII) examinations for 2026 on Thursday. The ICSE and ISC exams will start on Feb 17 and Feb 12, ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Country’s oldest cantonment board begins 250th anniv celebrations

    Kolkata: India's oldest cantonment, the Barrackpore Cantonment — established in 1772 by the British East India Company — celebrated its 250th anniversary on Thursday with a grand inauguration ceremony at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose (Sainik) Auditorium, Barrackpore.Established on ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Awards for compassion towards animals in films to debut in Kolkata on Dec 20

    Kolkata: The inaugural edition of CineKind, a new award dedicated to celebrating kindness, particularly towards animals and the natural world, will be held in Kolkata on Dec 20. The event marks a significant milestone in the Indian film industry ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    ED summons Sujit Bose’s wife, son

    Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday sent summons to Bengal fire minister Sujit Bose's wife and son as part of the agency's probe into the municipal jobs case. They have been asked to appear before the agency next ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    31st KIFF ends with a surprise CM visit and creative-economy message

    Kolkata: Chief minister paid a surprise visit to the closing ceremony of the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) on Thursday to give away the Royal Bengal Tiger award. The international jury, setting a new benchmark at KIFF, ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Eves head for Eden after women’s WC win

    Kolkata: On the eve of Test cricket's grand return to Kolkata, a wave of women — from college students to homemakers and office-goers — are preparing to fill the stands of Eden Gardens as India play the first match ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Doubts over transparency in state health dept hiring

    Kolkata: The West Bengal Health Recruitment Board (WBHRB) notification of appointing assistant professors to fill up 621 vacant posts in different disciplines in medical colleges in the state has sparked controversy with several members of the interview panel being ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    In most paras, elderly voters crowd help desks

    Kolkata: Confused, anxious, and scared of being left out of the voters' list, hundreds of elderly residents thronged the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) help desks across the city — from Hind Cinema near Wellington Square to Harokali Colony in ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Will complete distribution of SIR forms by tonight, assure EC officials

    Kolkata: By Friday night, all electors in the city who are yet to receive an SIR knock may get their enumeration forms delivered at their doorstep. (ECI) officials assured on Thursday that booth level officers (BLO) are racing ...

    14 November 2025 Times of India
    Split verdict: Goopy in EC-produced video not sure about SIR final outcome

    Kolkata: As an actor, Sujan Mukhopadhyay, essaying Satyajit Ray film's immortal character Goopy in an Election Commission-produced video, has been urging everyone to fill their Special Intensive Revision (SIR) forms. In person, Mukhopadhyay is, however, unsure about SIR's final ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata International Film Festival promotes celluloid projection with 'Nayantara' screening at Radha Studio

    KOLKATA: The small projection room of Radha Studio had a busy look on Wednesday afternoon. Projectionist Gopal Chandra Dutta was back in action to showcase a 1997 film shot by Dhrubojyoti Bose and Kamal Nayak on celluloid for the ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Ray's Apu trilogy accompanied Cuban director during the filming of his documentary that’s competing for KIFF’s top award

    KOLKATA: A black-and-white Cuban documentary has created quite a sensation as one of the contenders of the top award of the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF). David Bim’s “To the West, in Zapatta” captures the intimacy of a ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    ISI erupts over Islamophobic graffiti on campus

    Kolkata: One of the premier institutions in the country, the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, was rocked by Islamophobic graffiti a day after a devastating car explosion killed at least 12 people and left several injured in Delhi. The "hateful ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata: CISF conducts raids on illegal coal mining sites in Mugma

    KOLKATA: The CISF sector headquarters in Kolkata has launched a large-scale raid at coal mining sites under Eastern Coalfields Ltd at Mugma, Jharkhand. Sources said the raids halted the movement of any vehicles potentially carrying illegally mined coal.According to ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    BJP hands EC list of over 13L voters with ‘double entries’

    Kolkata: Bengal BJP on Wednesday submitted a list of over 13 lakh voters against whom it had spotted "double or triple entry" to the Election Commission."We have submitted a pen drive with the EC containing the names of 13, ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Autopsy done after prof lodges plaint over dog death on IIT-Kgp campus

    Kharagpur: A dog-loving professor at IIT Kharagpur lodged a complaint with police, seeking an autopsy to determine the cause death of a dog on Tuesday. Following the complaint, the autopsy was conducted at the State Animal Health Center in ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    EC eases norm on BLA appointment; tweak to favour BJP, says TMC

    Kolkata: The poll panel on Tuesday announced that political parties can deploy a booth level agent (BLA) for the special intensive revision (SIR) of the voters list anywhere in an assembly constituency, instead of assigning a particular booth to ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Santragachhi Jheel overrun by water hyacinth, clean-up delay threatens migratory bird arrival

    Kolkata: A year after the delayed cleanup of the 33-acre Santragachhi Jheel led to fewer arrivals of migratory birds, there are fears of a repeat this year, with work to remove the water hyacinth cover yet to start.Nature conservation ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    SSC aspirants: HC wants to hear from SC before deciding on marks for experience

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Wednesday preferred to wait for the 's "interpretation" on the award of up to 10 marks for teaching experience to the candidates who appeared in the 2nd State Level Selection Test 2025 and scheduled ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    17 & counting: Year’s deceased organ donation breaks record

    Kolkata: Bengal achieved a new height in deceased organ donation on Wednesday. The family of a 67-year-old woman consented to donate her organs after she was declared brain dead in a Kolkata hospital, making it the 17th deceased organ ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    In Burrabazar, absent, duplicate voters prompt BLOs to paste notices on doors

    Kolkata: Booth-level officers, distributing SIR enumeration forms in the Burrabazar-Posta area, were confronted with an array of problems—absent voters, addresses that could not be traced and residents with more than one voter ID cards. EC officials suspect at least ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    In complexes and paras, citizens help citizens in SIR hour of need

    Kolkata: Residents' Welfare Associations (RWAs) across gated complexes in Kolkata have turned WhatsApp groups and society notice boards into SIR classrooms, circulating step-by-step notes, FAQs, numbers of BLOs, and short videos on filling up new enumeration forms. In other ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata Police renews searches at Mini-Bangla hotels after terror attack in Delhi

    Kolkata: After the terror attack in Delhi's Chandni Chowk, Kolkata Police has increased its vigilance, especially at hotels and guest houses,particularly in central Kolkata, ‘Mini Bangladesh' area, and Sealdah station zone. Teams of Kolkata Police carried out checks in ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    RDB Primarch Techpark sees Concentrix, Linde leasing deals

    Kolkata: RDB Primarc Techpark, has seen major leasing deals recently. These include those of Concentrix (127,000 sq ft), Linde (50,000 sq ft) and Greenwave Technologies (7,300 sq ft), highlighting brisk demand and robust occupier confidence. Primarc and RDB took ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Kilburn Engineering Q2 profit jumps 30%

    Kolkata: Kilburn Engineering has reported a 30% rise in net profit to Rs 18 crore for the second quarter of the current fiscal, up from Rs 13.8 crore a year earlier. Total revenue grew 47% to Rs 116.8 crore ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Nklusive secures record real estate assets under mgmt in Kol, Hyd & B’luru

    Kolkata: A real estate consultancy firm dealing with premium projects across India secured assets worth nearly Rs 3,000 crore under management in Kolkata, just over a third of the new assets it signed for management across the country this ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    40L jewellery theft from Salt Lake home

    Kolkata: A 64-year-old resident of AJ Block in Salt Lake, Rajesh Kumar Dalmia, filed a cop complaint after he noticed several valuable items missing from his home. Among the items stolen are a solitaire ring, one pair of gold ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    NIA raid at Murshidabad over ‘terror link’

    Kolkata: A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team on Wednesday carried out a search operation at Murshidabad's Nabagram in connection with a two-year-old case involving an al-Qaeda terror network in Ahmedabad. The NIA team, with the help of local police ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Mamata receives honorary D Litt from Japan’s Okayama University

    Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee received an honorary D Litt degree from Okayama University of Japan at a programme here on Wednesday.Nasu Yasutomo, president of the university, praised Banerjee for her role in the development of the state in ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    Student welfare in mind, IIT-Kgp meets parents

    Kolkata: The IIT Kharagpur administration on Tuesday launched a three-day virtual interaction with first-year students' parents and boarders of Lal Bahadur Shastri (LBS) Hall of Residence, aiming to strengthen trust and transparency and foster a shared responsibility among the ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
    TMC, Cong question EC’s use of 2002 SIR data despite 2009 delimitation

    Kolkata: Opposition parties in Bengal, led by the Trinamool on Wednesday questioned the EC's rationale for making SIR 2002 the reference year, even though the state underwent delimitation in 2009, which altered it's electoral demography. Both Trinamool and Congress ...

    13 November 2025 Times of India
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